Map implementation with duplicate keys

Question

I want to have a map with duplicate keys.

I know there are many map implementations (Eclipse shows me about 50), so I bet there must be one that allows this. I know

Answer 1

I had a slightly different variant of this issue: It was required to associate two different values with same key. Just posting it here in case it helps others, I have introduced a HashMap as the value:

/* @param frameTypeHash: Key -> Integer (frameID), Value -> HashMap (innerMap)
   @param innerMap: Key -> String (extIP), Value -> String
   If the key exists, retrieve the stored HashMap innerMap 
   and put the constructed key, value pair
*/
  if (frameTypeHash.containsKey(frameID)){
            //Key exists, add the key/value to innerHashMap
            HashMap innerMap = (HashMap)frameTypeHash.get(frameID);
            innerMap.put(extIP, connName+":"+frameType+":"+interfaceName);

        } else {
            HashMap innerMap = new HashMap();
            innerMap.put(extIP, connName+":"+frameType+":"+interfaceName);
            // This means the key doesn't exists, adding it for the first time
            frameTypeHash.put(frameID, innerMap );
        }
}

In the above code the key frameID is read from a input file's first string in each line, the value for frameTypeHash is constructed by splitting the remaining line and was stored as String object originally, over a period of time the file started having multiple lines (with different values) associated with same frameID key, so frameTypeHash was overwritten with last line as the value. I replaced the String object with another HashMap object as the value field, this helped in maintaining single key to different value mapping.